Friday, February 27, 2015

I
was going to post on Politico’s interview of Eric Holder.I know – me, link Politico?But do go read it.I swear Holder is a race-baiting piece
of work.He wants to make it
easier for the Feds to file trumped-up charges of civil rights violations
against those who dare defend themselves against thugs of color.He hopes to start an Eric Holder
Institute for Race and Justice – that is not a joke!What is sad is that there is surely a university all too
willing to stoop so low.

But
I want to get more personal.Back
in the first half of 2009, I felt under perpetual bombardment from Obama,
Holder, etc.It seemed it was
something every day.I feared for
my country.I feared for our – and
my – freedom.I said the collect
from Morning Prayer, “Defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our
enemies” with added fervor.

It
even affected me physically, wearing me down at times.

Now
I get the awful feeling it is happening again.And I am getting that same feeling of dread again.

It
really should not be happening again.After last year’s election repudiating his party, Obama has far less
lawful power than he had in 2009.

But
“lawful” is the key word there.Now that Obama does not have another election in front of him to hold
him accountable, his concern for what is lawful is less than ever.And the Republicans we elected to stop
him are doing precious little to do so.

So
his regime, more lawless than ever, pushes a new enormity every day it
seems.His FCC, independent in
theory only under Obama, passes so-call net neutrality, increasing Fed power
over the internet, without even publishing ahead of time what they were voting
on.

That’s
how totalitarian governments work.

Obama
is seeking to ban a type of AR-15 ammo; the 2nd Amendment be damned.

The
ATF is confiscating property without court authorization or even a criminal
charge.Who gave it that power?
Eric Holder.And does he have the
lawful power to do that? Shut up with your questions and concerns about civil
rights.Civil rights are to
protect favored classes like thugs of color, not red neck gun owners.

This
is just stuff that came out this week.And I’m sure I’ve missed something.Who can keep up with all of Obama’s lawlessness and attacks
on our freedoms?

I
knew we had a lawless president.But I had hoped that the past election and his lame duck status would have
constrained him.Instead, his last
election past, he is all the more throwing off the restraint of the
Constitution and the rule of law.

I
fear for my country . . . and for myself.

By
the way, in part for that very reason, I am considering a future change to this
blog.But I will get there when I
get there.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Remember when the Obama Regime released thousands
of illegal immigrants from detention beginning in 2013? (Hmm, that’s right
after his re-election – a coincidence I’m sure.)Obama and his kept news media sure would like for you to
forget.For the release has had
tragic and predictable consequences.And now victims of Obama’s released criminal immigrants are speaking
out.

Family
members of people who were murdered by illegal immigrants after those
immigrants had previously been detained and released pursuant to President
Obama’s policies will testify before House lawmakers Wednesday morning.

The
testimony is intended to illustrate a pattern of the Department of Homeland
Security releasing criminal immigrants rather than deporting them, according to
a Republican congressman who said that DHS had released 36,000 convicted
criminal illegal immigrants since 2013.

“Of
those 36,000, already now 1,000 of them have already been convicted of new
crimes,” says the lawmaker. “These are people who have gone through the court
system, even. And yet, rather than them get repatriated, they’re released, and
now there are new victims because of the recklessness of the policy.”

Which begs the question - what is the point of
fully funding DHS if it willfully is not defending our borders under this
administration?

By the way, the Democrat noos media is being quiet
about these crimes and this hearing . . . of course.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Tomorrow
Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday are the Ember Days for the season of Lent.For helpful information on these, one may go to the discontinued (Alas!) Low Churchman’s Guide to the Solemn High
Mass.

You
are very welcome.

On
an even more serious note, I have two intentions for these Ember Days and would
appreciate your joining me in prayer concerning them:

1.
I am seeking discernment as to how to further my education.

2.
More short term, I am seeking discernment as to how to best promote my novel Pilot Point.

If
Pilot Point never becomes a best seller (SNORT!), I am okay with
that.But I do want to be diligent
in promoting it without getting obnoxious or out of proportion about it.

I
am and will be praying for guidance in these two areas with the modest
realization that one of the lessons of today, the Feast of St. Matthias, is
that the Lord’s plans for us are often quite different than what we imagine!

Monday, February 23, 2015

When
Obama finally leaves the White House, I’m sure he could get a plum tenure
somewhere, at Harvard perhaps, as an authority on the history of Islam and of
America’s founding . . . or perhaps not.

“Here in America,” Obama
stated, “Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its
founding.”

Nice try, Mr.
President. But, as Ben Shapiro, writing for Breitbart, notes, the first
Muslims did not immigrate to the United States until well after
the Civil War; and
the first mosque in the United States was not built
until 1915, by
most reports. Shapiro goes on to say:

“Islam had zero impact on
the founders or their philosophy – less than zero, given that the founders
despised the religion, or what they knew of it.”

Which
is understandable given the founders, particularly Thomas Jefferson, had to
deal with the Muslim Barbary pirates.But Obama botched that bit of history as well.Read here to get more color on that.

So
perhaps Obama ought to stick to community organizing after his presidency. . .
. Oh heck, who am I kidding?Higher education in the U. S. is so devolved and corrupted, any number
of universities would love to have Obama use them to push his falsehoods.Revisionist liars historians
have to be combated and debunked in every generation thanks to corrupted academia.

By the way, is there any subject about which Obama will not tell falsehoods?

Friday, February 20, 2015

After 9-11, I was appalled by those who were eager
to blame the act on us, on U. S. literally, as if we had done something to
deserve it.(Actually, we helped
Osama Bin Laden against the Soviets in Afghanistan.Some thanks we got.)Instead of denouncing the utter evil of the terrorists, some,
particularly callow youth, were eager to make excuses for them and to blame America.And I saw this attitude even from
people who were not particularly radical.

The episode was an eye-opener for me how wedded
some are to moral equivalence to the point that that they would makes excuses
for the perpetrators and blame the victims even in the case of 9-11.

Fast forward to now, and this crowd is in charge of
the White House. And in even in the face of the pure evil of ISIS, they are
reluctant to call evil by its name.Their language instead obscures evil when it distracts from today’s evil
from Islamonazis by pointing to alleged past evil by Christians.(BTW, does it concern that the Obama
Administration is a bit eager to blame Christians, far more eager than they are
to blame extremist Muslims?)Not
to mention blaming a lack of jobs.Yes, a jobs fair is the answer to ISIS.

Some may think I am nitpicking diplomatic language.But one does not have to read 1984
to know that a regime that uses language more to obscure than to explain is not
healthy for a society. As Jonah Goldberg just said (during a really good rant, by the way), “Societies get themselves into trouble when language becomes a tool not
for describing reality but concealing it.”

Yes, being diplomatic is usually the way to go in
foreign affairs.But one can be
diplomatic without being delusional or deceptive.

May I suggest that calling out evil is better way
to go?Whatever happened to saying
evil people do evil things because they are evil?

Thursday, February 19, 2015

If you have ever wondered about the motivations of those who push perverse
variations of sex education on young children . . . well, it’s not paranoia if
they really areout to get your kids.

The former Ontario deputy
education minister who oversaw the development of a controversial sex-ed program
before facing child sex charges will plead guilty to a number of those charges.

Benjamin Levin, born
1952, was arrested in 2013 in the wake of an international child porn sting
that led to his North York doorstep. He was not only accused of making and distributing
child pornography, but also of arranging for a sexual offense with a child, and
with possessing and accessing child pornography.

Levin’s lawyer Clayton
Ruby confirmed Friday in court that his client will plead guilty to some of the
seven charges, without clarifying which ones, reported the Toronto Star. Ruby
also indicated that a guilty plea means there will be no trial.

Levin will be sentenced
in March.

Under his watch as
Ontario’s top education official from 2004 to 2009, Levin oversaw the development
of an update to the provincial sex-education curriculum. Critics immediately
slammed the proposal for encouraging the early sexualization of children and
promoting a homosexual agenda.

Under the umbrella of
“sexual diversity,” the curriculum teaches children to question whether they
are a boy or a girl . . .

And
I don’t want to type anymore of that.

Look,
I know not everyone who writes or chooses sex education curriculum has bad
motives.And I do think there a
paranoia about men working with kids that drives off good men and thereby
impoverishes education, in both secular and church contexts.

But,
without going into sordid details, a lot of the garbage pushed on kids under
the guise of sex education is madness and does beg the question of the motivations
of those who push said garbage on children.

And
in this case, the motivation appears to be, at least in part, predatory.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

I got into a somewhat Lenten mood early last night
around the fire and therefore read one of Pope Leo the Great’s sermons on Lent.I found the following reflection on the
Temptation of Christ (And remember that Jesus’ 40 days and 40 nights in the
wilderness is one of the themes of Lent.) particularly on target.On this Ash Wednesday, I present it to
you along with my prayers for a blessed Lent.

As
we approach then, dearly-beloved, the beginning of Lent, which is a time for
the more careful serving of the Lord, because we are, as it were, entering on a
kind of contest in good works, let us prepare our souls for fighting with
temptations, and understand that the more zealous we are for our salvation, the
more determined must be the assaults of our opponents. But "stronger is He
that is in us than He that is against us," and through Him are we powerful
in whose strength we rely: because it was for this that the Lord allowed
Himself to be tempted by the tempter, that we might be taught by His example as
well as fortified by His aid. For He conquered the adversary, as ye have heard,
by quotations from the law, not by actual strength, that by this very thing He
might do greater honour to man, and inflict a greater punishment on the adversary
by conquering the enemy of the human race not now as God but as Man. He fought
then, therefore, that we too might fight thereafter: He conquered that we too
might likewise conquer. For there are no works of power, dearly-beloved,
without the trials of temptations, there is no faith without proof, no contest
without a foe, no victory without conflict. This life of ours is in the midst
of snares, in the midst of battles; if we do not wish to be deceived, we must
watch: if we want to overcome, we must fight.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Just after my bedtime overnight, there was good news, for a change, on immigration. Federal Judge Andrew Hanen issued a
temporary injunction against Obama’s Executive Immigration Action at the
request of Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

Granted, this is only one ruling of many to
come.But it is important to stop
Obama as much as possible before a final resolution of this dispute. Once
millions of illegals are supposedly legalized, that would be very difficult to
undo.Obama cannot be allowed to
put facts on the ground with impunity.

If you wish to dig into the legal details of the
ruling, here and especially here are good places to start.

By the way, I know readers may not agree with me on
immigration.But I would hope we
agree that Presidential dictates violating the Constitution and the rule of law
are not the right way to reform immigration.

But if you are fine with Obama’s tyrannical acts on
this matter . . . well then shame on you.

Speaking of supporting tyranny, I noticed this
poster at what was a favorite Mexican food spot:

I know enough Spanish to know that the poster
promotes an effort to assist both illegals and Obama in breaking the law by
assisting illegals to take advantage of his illegal immigration action.

And look who is supporting this as noted on the
lower right hand of the poster – Catholic Charities.

This is not the first time Catholic Charities has
supported Obama’s tyranny.They,
particularly its new president, Sister Donna Markham, cheerleaded Obamacare
even while many Roman Catholics were opposing its attack on religious freedom
and support of abortion-on-demand.

It is sad that there are always those who use
Christ’s name to support tyranny.Catholic Charities are among them.

Monday, February 16, 2015

God’s Holy Army of Martyrs grew by 21 over the
weekend at the hands of ISIS Islamonazi murderers in Libya.

Towards the end of my Morning Prayer today, I asked
for the prayers of these new martyrs, Egyptian Coptic Christians, several of whom were seen praying at
their execution.And already many
are asking for their prayers as well.

Indeed, those who prayed with trembling at their
impending unjust execution for bearing the name of Christ now under that Holy Name
pray in joy and perfect peace.

Friday, February 13, 2015

In America, we have a tradition that justice is
supposed to be impartial. . . .

Sorry if I made you snort coffee on your keyboard
there, but yes, it’s true even if ignored.Therefore, to avoid the appearance of partiality among other
reasons, judges are not to comment on cases before them.That just Is. Not. Done. . . . unless you
are a activist liberal justice apparently.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made very warm noises
towards both same-sex marriage and Obamacare in an interview with
Bloomberg.That when Supreme Court
rulings on both matters are pending.It is indeed an “amazing impropriety,” an “astounding” disregard of
basic judicial ethics.

Now that she has so clearly made up her mind
beforehand and made it all the more obvious that she has done so and helped poison the atmosphere for the other side to boot, she should do
the right thing and recuse herself from both rulings.

She will not, of course.And few, if any, from the left of center are calling for her
to do so. Instead, many Leftists are applauding her comments.Things like judicial
ethics and judicial restraint are trivialities to Leftists like Ginsburg.The Cause is so much more important,
don’tcha know.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

With Obama attempting to
use the FCC to cram “net neutrality” – which is just a ruse by the totalitarians
to control online speech; they must control all the things – down our throats and
with the Federal Election-Rigging Commission (FEC) considering (again) regulating (conservative) blogs, Patterico has revived
the Patterico Free Speech pledge:

If the FEC makes rules
that limit my First Amendment right to express my opinion on core political
issues, I will not obey those rules.

Well
I am taking that pledge here and now.Further, if the FEC comes knocking concerning this blog and my online
presence, I will tell them two things:

1.
Go read the 1st Amendment and the rest of the Constitution for that
matter.

2.
Go . . . do something I will not print here . . . But get off MY property
first.

If we actually reach the
point where my engaging in such core political speech might subject me to
arrest . . . then I’ll make sure that television cameras are there to watch the
authorities slap on the cuffs.

There
comes a time to tell tyrants to . . . do something I will not print here.

At least two Supreme
Court Justices get it that the Court is out of line in its disregard for the
rights of the states.Clarence
Thomas, joined by Justice Scalia, spared few words in taking apart the majority’s
decision not to grant even a stay to the State of Alabama on same-sex marriage.

His attack on “this Court’s increasingly cavalier attitude toward the States” is about as
strong as it gets from this notoriously quiet Justice.Do go read the highlights of his opinion for yourself.

Back
in Alabama, resistance to federally imposed same-sex marriage continues.To which I say, GOOD!